Not as grand and sexy as Brad's new addition to the CV32 State Arsenal, I am about 98% complete on a scratch built 1/285-ish Landing Craft Utility. By 1/285-ish, my 1/285 M1 Abrams look just about right when loaded, and during off-load.

 

I captured an image of the LCU from global security. Cropped, resized, colored, printed, cut, used to trace on to styrene, cut styrene, glued my colorized images onto the styrene, glued the styre pieces together. looks pretty good. It is useable, but I feel that I cannot leave it as is. I will attempt to construct the pilothouse tonight with styrene components since the rest of the ships edges are fairly 2-D.

 

Photos (hopefully) soon.

Ok, still need to do some minor detailing, but here it is, a scratch built LCU in approximity 1/285 scale. The tanks are 1/285 GHQ.

 

Off load from the starboard side.

 

The business end of an M1A1 section.

 

Off load from the port side.

 

Blurry overhead...sorry.

 

Detailed off load, M1A1 turns turret as not to bury it like a lawn dart.

good work Pete!

Definitely, very nice work Pete. How where are your Bradleys and M113s?

Follow-on waves....? Hey! there only one LCU..I built it from scratch.